Michael Emerson is your normal teenager. He grew up in the sun drenched city that is Phoenix, Arizona with his mother ( lucy ), father ( lance ), and younger brother ( sam ) . All throughout his life he noticed his parents relationship slowly drifting downwards. It started with arguments here and there which his mother would casually joke with his brother that it had been because his father refused to close their closet door all the way leaving a way for the closet monsters to get in. Michael knew better when school let out, though, and his father had taken everything in the divorce settling leaving his mother and them flat broke. Like any other teenager this made Michael grow distant from his mother and even more so from his father whom he had never been close to.Â
The move out to SANTA CARLA took only a few hours. His mother spoke of it being their new beginning - starting fresh while living at their grandfather’s lodge home - but the greeting sign to the city, which coyly read ‘MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD’, said otherwise. The scent that struck his palette as soon as their car crossed into the city border wasn’t normal. It smelled like d e a t h. Seeing as how all the entire family had packed could fit into their station wagon, it didn’t take long for Michael and his brother Sam to unpack. After choosing his room and settling in as much as he possibly can in a home designed like it was the set of the texas chainsaw massacre thanks to his grandfather, Sam and Michael decide to explore the local boardwalk they had passed on the way in. While Sam discovers a comic shop later on that holds it’s own secret, Michael unknowingly submerges himself into a world of d a r k n e s s by chasing after one girl at a beachfront concert and her name is S T A R .
